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  • Add real-time news to your site with Google. Add any real-time data to your site with Kwwika

    Phil Leggetter 10:05 am on May 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    It’s been revealed that Google are going to release a version of their API that supports Real-Time news push. Real-time push technology has been around for ages and there are a number of technologies that allow you to host your own real-time push server. However, more recently hosted solutions have come about. Kwwika is one of these solutions.

    However, why restrict yourself to just news updates when there are services such a Kwwika that allow you to add real-time push containing any data to your website!

    If you have data that you want to push your data in real-time then you can use Kwwika to easily and instantly distribute your data to thousands of users. This can be great for showing the quality of your data and proving you use the most up to date technologies to give your data consumers a massive advantage. If you want to add real-time data to your website then you can easily subscribe to data and have it update instantly in your website.

    Why not get in touch with Kwwika or sign up for the beta programme and see how you can either real-time push your data or add real-time push to your website, Rich Internet Application (RIA) or desktop application.

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  • Google have integrated Facebook fan page status messages into latest results

    Phil Leggetter 10:02 am on February 27, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    According to this article by Read Write Web, Bing have exclusive access to the data created by Facebook user status updates and Google have access to the data from Facebook fan page updates. It’s interesting to see that this data is so highly valued that there is clearly a bidding war over access to certain types of data. Which is more valuable?

    As of today, Facebook Fan Page status updates will begin appearing in Google search results, according to a tweet by Google. The announcement means that we will begin seeing results from the nearly 3 million fan pages, but not from the more than 400 million users.

     
  • How does Google Real-Time Search work?

    Phil Leggetter 2:18 pm on December 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Google, , Le Web, ,

    On or around the 12th of December 2009 Google released a feature they are calling “real-time search”.

    Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand.

    Although I’d still argue that we’re not seeing the real-time web with this solution I thought I’d go in to a bit of detail about how Google are achieving this HTTP polling solution.

    Summary

    • Google are consuming and indexing real-time data from multiple social networks
    • It’s not real-time HTTP PUSH yet, it’s HTTP PULL using a polling interval
    • The polling interval seems to vary but this needs to be confirmed.
    • The polling result returns an encoded JSON response containing the next request to be made and the HTML of any new results. These results are injected into the “Latest results” section of the page
    • The HTML returned is quite verbose and could be refined
    • 87% from a sample of 30 polled requests returned no new results meaning the request was a waste of resources

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  • Microsoft Bing.com round table thoughts

    Phil Leggetter 8:07 pm on July 1, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Bing.com, Google, , , NDCG, Search,

    A couple of days ago I blogged that I was going to attend a Microsoft bing round table. I’ve now attended and here are the key points and interesting facts that I took from the event. You can also search for #meetbing on twitter for relevant tweets.
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